There is much talk in Paris, in Greenwich Village, even in the center of Manhattan, about existence and existentialism. The existentialists assemble in the Cafe de Flore in Paris. There is a series of ...

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Nihilism and existentialism are certainly not the same, and the Classic Crime’s “The Happy Nihilist” illustrates the difference impeccably with its description of a lost soul who “used to read ...

Jean-Paul Sartre, a very short, very cheerful Parisian, lectured at the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall last week without provoking a riot or a single refined cry of “Salaud! ” or “Fumiste!,” the latter, ...

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The literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel—partly because he could find no other ...

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and ...

It’s no accident that Sarah Connor’s famous dictum that there is “No fate but what we make” closely resembles Jean-Paul Sartre’s first principle of existentialism, that “Man is nothing else but that ...

Want to know why 50,000 people showed up to pay their respects at the funeral of Jean-Paul Sartre? Three new books may provide the answer. By Ray Monk On YouTube there is a three-minute clip of the ...

The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre (Getty) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is the philosopher whose work – ...